Alec we enjoyed having you in our room, and it was great chatting with you on your way out. A bit disappointed you didn't mention the outstanding floor staff, but no worries......Hope to see you again!!
For hand #5 before the river, there are the same number of combos of AQ compared to AA/KK. 12 combos of AQ (4 aces, 3 queens remaining), and 6 combos of AA, 6 combos of KK. So there isnt "double the possibility that he has AA or KK". Unless you're not giving villian all AQo combos. But on the river the AQ combos is reduced to 8, so still AA/KK combos isnt double the combos of AQ combos. He could also have the 2 combos of KQs
I've just recently starting taking poker a little bit more seriously. The explanations of the hands are very good and I am proud that many of your strategies I have noticed or picked up in my time playing. It assures me I am on the right step. Hopefully this new motivation of mine to take poker seriously pays dividends. Thank you for helping us!
You are absolutely on point when you say that these games should be (relatively) easy to beat, especially given the context of opponent hand ranges, who is a pro and who is not and the 200BB buy-in structure. Also, happy birthday. 🎂
Tough to get past the first hand. You bet/jam the flopped straight and expected to get action? Not unless you are against a set, poorly played hand in a typical 2-5 nl.
Poker scene out there is pretty easy to clean up. I was out there last year and had two great sessions w easy reads to cash out for about $3500 First time I ever went to PS…if I ever go back… definitely gonna play there again
In the queens spot I’m jamming. I truly wish I could give you some high level analysis but at that stack depth my solver has me jam JJ and QQ there often and it’s just something that I’ve memorized.
Thanks for the content! Love the vids! I swear though, the NE has THE toughest 2/5 tables in North America. Come play Mohegan/foxwoods/twin and tell me what you think. I think $50/hr at those tables is only possible on certain days.
Game selection. Simply put the lower the stakes, the more tables of said games are in play. This lowers the overall average of the collective "table skillset" for lack of a better term. When you are used to playing at the high level you are frequenting, dropping down is sort of like shooting fish in a barrel. Just my .02
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Great video overall! I don't quite understand his math at @14:39 though, "there are twice as many AA, KKs than AQ". There are 4 unseen Aces and 2 unseen queens that makes 8. There are 12 combos of AA, KK (6 each). So it's 1.5 : 1 not 2 : 1 and on the turn it was exactly a coin flip but still super informative video.
10:51 What would I do and why? I would shove. While holding the Queens. And why? OK, the options are to raise, fold, or call. 1. Fold option: I wouldn't fold because my hand is too strong, way too strong. I could probably fold AK, AQ, other non-pairs. But I cannot fold a hand like QQ with a runner-runner Flush draw. Simply too strong compared to other hands I might have. I also don't have a tight image. 2. Call option: I wouldn't call because why? The only way a call would help much is if the opponent is entirely bluff-raising, and you haven't called him a maniac. Even if it is a total bluff, there's still a remote chance that the total bluff would outdraw me. 3. Raise: There isn't much left behind, so the raise could be a shove, so I would shove.
Nice, I enjoyed it. Me as a grinder small stakes pro would not really be getting into many similar spots I think. I just finished 22 weeks @ 1-3, with an 11.3 K profit in a 100 bb capped buyin, and one thing I take from you here, that with a bigger buyin you can make a much nicer hourly Thanks
8:04 I play 2 NL and 5 NL and I'm grimacing. AQ wins 25.56% with only 2 cards to come. Even if this was pre-flop and the other guy had AK, it's about the same, with AQ winning about 25%.
15:04 but what would you do if he raise-shoves? For me it's probably often a call and a loss when the opponent has a Queen for the stronger Full House.
Alec, why not an exploitative min raise on the flop with the flopped nuts on the first hand? Followed by two small-ish bets on Turn and River? I always ask myself "how can I get all in against the widest possible range?"
I would probably call as I don't think many combinations of straights like A2 and 67 are plasuable. Maybe, 3 of a kind could play this way but at the same time I think 3 of a kind would just call
For hand #4, I would call. Villain should be polarized here, but since this is a fishy $2/$5 game, he has many worse over pairs in range. I think KK specifically would be inclined to 4-bet you preflop because he doesn't want to give 2 ranges the chance to flop an ace or a set, even if he is the tricky kind. He may have that anxiety to a lesser extent with AA. So his value range is flopped sets and sandbagged AA; he also has 66 and 22 as merges that don't particularly care about stacking off into an over-pair, and he has bluffs, specifically the NFD which is also a gutter. Villain shouldn't even be flatting 33 and 44 here but we know that he is. If he doesn't have the discipline to lay those down preflop, then he probably also thinks that 77 or 88 here is the nuts and/or you're full of shit. So combo-wise, there's at least twice as many worse over pairs in his range compared to nutted combinations, so folding is, I think, out of the question. Since we're going to pile it, the question is how; the NFD will most likely call off if we jam, reasoning that he has 50% equity (which he does.) Same with the straights. But he might fold the portion of his range that is dead, such as 88, and we don't want that. He may also have some bullshit hand like KJo, and if this is the case, we want to keep him in. So I would call, then pile if he checks any non-heart turn, and call if he shoves. However if the turn is specifically an ace or a heart, we do have to fold to the jam, I think, which is going to happen 22% of the time. If we get some sick live read, or get some good price, maybe we can continue. But this is worth it given that, say, 50% of the time, we aren't letting him off the hook with 66-JJ, which is going to pay us.
Hi Alex, question in relation to your 80/20 video. Say I have a roll of $2k. $1600 goes to cash. $400 to tourneys. But what happens if I play a few sessions of tourneys and I lose $300. My roll is now $1700. But that means that my tourney roll is now $340 or 20%. If I decide to have another few sessions of tourneys and continue losing, it will keep putting a dint in bankroll. How do you manage this?
Pretty sure he has 12 combos of AA, KK and 12 combos AQ, It's equally likely, not double. Even at the river is 12 vs 8. If he ever has KQss here, then its off even more.
Not sure the point of this video. You're saying you are playing loose and the opposite of how you're supposed to play to get into interesting spots but seems strange to play against the book
I'm playing in a game where I have a huge edge and only have 3 hours to get into interesting spots, so I'm purposely playing looser to find situations I can exploit and then share with others. Lots of unique spots in this session.
64 is not the nuts on an 875 board. You know this. We know you mean the "essential nuts", but sometimes you're up against 96 and it can also get really bad if the turn is a 9 or a 6.
@@zekebones34 I missed the "close to it" part, but I'm not that guy because it's important to know that you don't have the nuts. You can be that guy that can't accept criticism.
Leave it to Torelli to get the poker combos math wrong then try to sell you a course on poker math. On the river there are 6 combos of AA, 6 combos of KK, and 8 combos of AQ.
lol yes, you're right! I should have specified I discounted some because he doesn't always 3-bet AQo given the fact it's me and positions, whereas he always 3-bets KK/AA. I realize this looks careless on my part and thank you for pointing it out. Come to think of it, it may actually be closer to 4 combos based on this assumption I'm making. Anyway, my broader point was KK/AA is way more likely than AQ, no matter how you cut the cards.
